Meocha Belle 6/16
Today professor, historian and public intellectual, Pap N'diaye, came to our class seminar and spoke to us about citizenship, black activism and history concerning France and Paris specifically. His talk was a compilation of our learning outcomes gained up to this point in our Paris Noir experience of what it means to be black in Paris on a political level.
While listening to his talk attentively, I realized just how much more I had known about African Americans in the City of Light than did a week and a 1/2 ago. That made me then wonder how it is that black people who have been living in Paris for months, even years, still believe that a "colorblind" France exists when disparities are widely experienced by the African Diaspora in Paris. There is clear racism and segregation present her, yet a number of panelists have perpetuated the free image of Paris.
~Paris Noir 2010
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